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Friday, July 31, 2015

Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods: From CAD Data Directly to Simulation ResultsAuthor: Gernot BeerThis book is about changing the paradigm of numerical simulation. Until now simulation required the generation of a mesh and this has meant a major effort and also a source of errors. In many cases an accurate description of the problem geometry is available as Computer Aided Design (CAD) data. This book will show how the generation of meshes can be avoided completely by using CAD technology. This includes using CAD data for the description of the geometry of the problem directly without approximation by a mesh and applying the functions that CAD programs use (non-uniform rational B-Splines or NURBS) to the description of the unknown. The book starts with an easy to follow introduction to NURBS and the standard data exchange format used by CAD programs. This is followed by an application to finite element shell analysis. For the modelling of solids the boundary element (BEM) is used since this is the only way mesh generation can be avoided. A computer program written in Octave/MATLAB, that has full 3-D capabilities, is introduced and used to demonstrate various steps in the analysis. Applications are in solid mechanics. Both linear and non-linear analyses are discussed and many practical examples are given. The book is designed to provide a starting point for scientists that want to work in this exciting new area of research and for practitioners to learn how the "pain" of numerical simulation can be eased.

DIVA Day is a full-day event of presentations and
panel discussions for practitioners, students and educators about building
performance and design using DIVA and associated building simulation tools.
This year, in addition to going international, we are excited to be pairing up
with the Architectural Association in London to bring you exciting new work in
the field of building performance and design.

After 4 years of experimenting with contents and pedagogic
formats at the successful Parametric Architecture intensive course held at
ETSAV, Ramon Sastre leading CODA and The Metropolitan School of Architecture direction
have decided to take a step forward in the education of future professionals.
Today we are presenting the new master degree Parametric Design in Architecture
featured by

The architectural project is a complex process that should allow linking
knowledge management with design in an operative way. We call parameters to all
categories of information that affect decision-making in the development of a
project. This is the goal of parametric architecture: go beyond geometry and
form to design a system with all variables / categories involved in the
process.

This is the potential of current software tools: Rhinoceros Grasshopper,
Dynamo, etc; which allow to change the design process, transforming architects
from builders of models to builders of systems.

Our aim is to design and discover novel form-finding strategies through the
methodological integration of forces, matter and processes.

The Master degree is taught in the Metropolitan School of Architecture offering
a residence of international students as well as equipment and facilities of
the latest technology necessary for this training. Its model workshop, digital
laboratories and technology centre CRITT, in addition to collaboration with the
Barcelona Fab Ateneus Network, ​​allow students to explore all possibilities in
parametric design techniques.

Friday, July 24, 2015

The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) and the Royal Netherlands Society for Engineers (KIVI) are co-organising the yearly IASS symposium. The symposium will take place from 17 to 20 August 2015 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. WorkshopsOn August 15th and 16th, 2015, before the opening of the IASS2015 International Symposium a number of workshops will be hosted in which you can participate. These workshops are aimed on getting hands-on experience and skills in the creation of various types of shell and spatial structures.Don't miss the Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo related workshops by our friends Ioanna Symeonidou, White Lioness Technologies, and many others:

As part of her end-of-studies project, Basia Dżaman, a Polish student from the School of Form, a Polish school of design, modified one of KUKA’s robotic arm in order to wave carbon fibers. The student in design started to make parts thanks to a 3D printer. Once the parts installed on the industrial robot, it can weave carbon fibers according to the model programmed by the operator. By coating it with resin before weaving, it becomes solid just as would do classic carbon fibers.Basia Dżaman designed the 3D parts with Rhinoceros software, which enables to modify each part according to the stitches wanted by the operator. Each part takes 3 to 5 hours to be 3D printed. For her graduation project, Basia Dżaman used the robotic arm to make traditional Polish stitches, called “snutki”. In spite of the quite limited interest in this stitches, this project opens up the scope of possibilities as regards the manufacturing of objects in carbon fibers. For Basia Dżaman, this project “has proven to be a versatile process which leaves many possibilities open for exploration in the future.”

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Rhino is part of another unique and distinctive design. This one focused on Grasshopper and taking advantage of parametric design.

NBBJ, in collaboration with CCDI for structural design, designed the Hangzhou Tennis Center.

One of NBBJ's goals was both environmental and cost-saving: to reduce the amount of steel used in the structure's envelope. They did so, now boasting a 67% steel savings over similar arenas.

Grasshopper was first used to generate an accurate logarithmic design for the shell. The generated double curve surfaces took a form of petals. Grasshopper was used for the model to convert the petals to structural elements.

The Hangzhou Tennis Center, located in Hangzou, China, is scheduled for completion in 2015-2016.

Step by Step: How to Print/Cut from Rhino to a TROTEC Laser

What is a RhinoFabStudio?A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication
studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an
array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled
tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge
industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and
fabricate almost anything..

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Facades+ is heading to Miami! Registration is now open. Sign up today!

Facades+ MiamiSeptember 10-11, 2015Register here. Early-bird registration ends August 9th.Day 1: SymposiumOn Day 1 a series of stimulating presentations and discussion-based panels will examine the increasingly fast-paced evolution of façade technology, address new perspectives on building skins, and explore innovative, sustainable design practices.Day 2: Field TripsA rare opportunity to examine South Florida’s most innovative facades led by Miami’s leading architectural authorities! Choose your route through Downtown & Brickell or Miami Beach & Design District with hardhat VIP access to some of the buildings under construction.About Facades+...Facades+ is the leading conference on high performance and high design building skins. Join the robust dialogue that covers all aspects of building envelopes and is the key to building systems integration, resilient buildings and a sustainable built environment. Who should come? Architects, fabricators, developers, consultants and other design professionals.

LoboScape: UNM's new advertising technology

The University of New Mexico, a certified RhinoFabStudio, is trying a
different approach to advertisement. UNM's Senior Lecturer III and
the Director of the School of Architecture and Planning’s Fabrication
Laboratory, Matthew Gines, took part in this project with the help from 4
of the university students. Gines specializes in digital fabrication,
design-build, representation and technology as it relates to design in
academia and the profession of architecture. He is also a 2015 RhinoFabStudio Mentor.

LoboScape is a visual installation that welcomes
travelers as they exit the revolving doors leading from the arrival gates into
the Albuquerque International Sunport.
Projected onto a custom fabricated display, it uses the latest technology in
visual arts to tell the story of The University of New Mexico and its
people. The exhibits features a 3 1/2 minutes
loop of multiple projected images on multi-faceted and triangulated surfaces
about the achievements and events at the University of New Mexico.

What is a RhinoFabStudio?A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Friday, July 10, 2015

Holger Jahns is a Berlin-based Industrial Designer and Maxwell Xpert. He has been using Maxwell since the Beta days for visualization work in his Studio and in his work as a lecturer at several international universities.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Rhino for Mac was announced a few weeks ago. Plug-ins aren't there yet, but you can achieve professional renders using Maxwell Studio (included in Maxwell Render suite*).Learn here how to export various file formats from Rhino for Mac, import them into Studio, set up materials, cameras, and such, and then render in Maxwell Render.*Maxwell Render Suite includes Maxwell Studio and the Rhino 5 Windows plug-in.

Ladybug Grasshopper Environmental plugin has just released a new set of free components for analysis of Photovoltaics. They are based on PVWatts v1 online calculator, supporting crystalline silicon fixed tilt photovoltaics.In the very essence these components help you answer the question: "How much energy can my roof, building facade, solar parking... generate if I would populate them with PV panels"?They allow definition of different types of losses (snow, age, shading...) which may affect your PV system. Or find its optimal tilt and orientation; analyse its performance, energy value, consumption, emissions...

AA VISITING SCHOOL BARCELONA Open Lecture SeriesBODEGA Enological MetabolismETSAB/UPC, BarcelonaJuly 2-16, 2015Bodega – Enological Metabolism centres its research on the associations that exist between wine and architecture in order to identify the influences they have on one another. Read more...Open Lectures SeriesARCHI/TECH/E/NOLOGIES is a Lecture Series open to everyone, which will bring together professionals of all kinds concerning architecture, technology and enology. Local and international architects with expertise in designing wineries will explain their startegies to develop their work on the wine field, whereas enologists and agricultural engineers will support and contrast all the techniques and current technologies used both, in the vineyard and the winery, to control the whole process of wine making in order to optimize the quality and the design of its coupage. By linking all these disciplines, the students will be encouraged to learn and support their project based in all this knowledge and tools.AAVS Barcelona 2015 - Opening LectureJosep Lluís Mateo, Mateo Arquitectura, BarcelonaRoca Barcelona Gallery, 2nd July 2015 at 19:30hAAVS Barcelona 2015 - Miderm LectureRosa Rull, Bailo Rull + ADD Architects, BarcelonaRoca Barcelona Gallery, 9th July 2015 at 19:30hAAVS Barcelona 2015 - Keynote LectureDidier Faustino, Architect, ParisRoca Barcelona Gallery, 16th July 2015 at 19:30h

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Charles Portelli, from the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), dropped by our office and we got to hear about some of KPF's latest projects.

One deviation from the large architectural projects we expect from KPF is this intriguing furniture line, Loop de Loop. All modeled in Rhino and rationalized in Grasshopper.

The five-piece collection, designed by William Pederson, founder and partner of KPF, works for both outdoors and indoors with its polyester mesh and powder-coated carbon steel rods. The non-elastic knit is deforms equally, no matter the person's size.

Each piece is a single loop of 5/8" high strength tubular steel, passing one end of the loop through the other -- Loop de Loop!

In a New York Times article, Pedersen elaborated, "We digitized them into a program that uses CNC technology to bend the 5/8-inch high-strength carbon-steel rods into continuous loops. There are 40 individual commands, and every inch or so along each tube the computer commands a change in the bend. It's like squeezing a tube of tooth paste: You change the pressure, and it changes the angle."

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

SeaHorse Hulls(by vizible) is a parametric modeling plugin for catamaran hulls. The demo version exposes only a few parameters, limiting the family of possible shapes. The plugin exposes a single comand - shHulls. The default values produce a hull with a Cp around 0.64. SeaHorse Hulls demo is free to use, however consider donating to support further development of the free version.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Version 2 of RhinoResurf plug-in for Rhino has been released. Here are some new
features:

RsPoints2Surf: Create symmetric surface from point cloud. A checkbox
named ‘use symmetric plane’ was added in the dialog panel. There are four symmetric
plane types (Auto, YOZ, XOZ, XOY and Any ) for you to choose.
More details ...

RsMesh2Surf: Create surface by a specified U-line direction. In option
‘plane’, you can select a curve on mesh to define as a u-direction guide line
for surface creation.

The PanelingTools plug-in helps generate 2-D and 3-D cellular patterns and populate them over rectangular grids. The plug-in supports intuitive design of paneling concepts as well as rationalize complex geometry into a format suitable for analysis and fabrication. The plug-in is closely integrated with Rhino 5 and is widely used for architectural and other building designers.

tensARC is one of the leading tensile fabric and deployable structure design companies in the UK. We have a rapidly increasing workload and are looking to strengthen our Stirling team with an exceptional new designer. This is a full time position but we would consider offering a long summer internship for an exceptional candidate in their final year of study.General requirements:

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